-- Lenin visits Nizhni-Novgorod and reads a paper at the
local Marxist circle on V. V.'s book The Destiny of Capitalism in
Russia.
-- Lenin returns to St. Petersburg, where he leads the
St. Petersburg group of Social-Democrats and the central workers'
circle, and conducts workers' classes outside the Nevskaya Toll gates
and in other parts of the city.

March-June

Lenin writes What the “Friends of the
People” Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats, the
first part of which appeared that spring.

First half of the year

In a Marxist circle in St. Petersburg, Lenin reads a
paper in which he critically analyses the book by the Narodnik
N. Karyshev Peasant Rentings of Non-Allotment Land

June 14 (26)

Lenin leaves for Moscow to spend the summer with
relatives. He also visits Samara.

July

The second edition of part one of What the
“Friends the People” Are appears in
St. Petersburg.

August 27 (September 8)

Lenin returns from Moscow to St. Petersburg.

End of August (first half of
September)

The first edition of part two and the third edition of
part one of Lenin's What the “Friends of the People”
Are appear (in Gorki, Vladimir Gubernia).

September

The first edition of part three and the fourth edition
of part one of Lenin's What the “Friends of the
People” Are appear in St. Petersburg.

October

Lenin reads What the “Friends of the
People” Are to the members of a St. Petersburg Marxist
circle.

Autumn

At a meeting of a St. Petersburg Marxists' circle, Lenin
reads his paper “The Reflection of Marxism in Bourgeois
Literature," in which he severely criticises the bourgeois distortions
of Marxism in Struve's book Critical Remarks on the Subject of
Russia's Economic Development.

After December 24 (after January
5)

Assisted by the worker I.V.Babushkin, Lenin drafts a
leaflet to the workers of the Semyannikov factory dealing with the
unrest there. This is the first leaflet issued by Russian Marxists.

End of 1894-beginning of 1895

Lenin writes The Economic Content of Narodism and
the Criticism of It in Mr. Struve's Book.